Mighty Like a Rose de Elvis Costello

Listado de Canciones

Disco 1

1. The Other Side Of Summer3:56

   Letra

   The sun struggles up another beautiful day And I felt glad in my own suspicious way Despite the contradiction and confusion Felt tragic without reason There's malice and there's magic in every season Chorus: From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf The other side of Summer To the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf The other side of Summer The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows A teenage girl is crying 'cos she don't look like a million dollars So help her if you can 'Cos she don't seem to have the attention span Chorus Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"? A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons"? The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop The pop princess is downtown shooting up And if that goddess if fit for burning The sun will struggle up the world will still keep turning Madman standing by the side of the road saying "Look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes" Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take Because of their mistakes you'd better be wide awake Chorus The mightiest rose The absence of perfume The casual killers The military curfew The cardboard city An unwanted birthday The other side of summer The dancing was desperate, the music was worse They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless Goodnight God bless And kiss "goodbye" to the earth The other side of summer
2. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)4:05
3. How To Be Dumb5:12

   Letra

   I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration While you were living like a saint And all the time the very one you trusted was washing off Somebody else's paint Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation Every fleeting thought is a pearl And beautiful people stampede to the doorway of the funniest fucker in the world They're here to help you Satisfy your desire There's a bright future for all you professional liars Chorus: Now you know how to be dumb Are you ready to take your place in the modern museum of mistakes? Don't you know how to be dumb? Like a building thrown up overnight in one of those reverse earthquakes They emptied out all the asylums, they emptied out all the gaols The "New Bruise" was the name of a dance craze By "Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails" Followed up by "Torturing Little Beaver" With their contraption of barbed wire Between the fear and the fever lies all the rejection they require They'll be howling by midnight, they'll be drooling by dawn Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains Heads shaven and shorn Chorus Trapped in the House of the Perpetual Sucker Where bitterness always ends so pitifully You always had to dress up your envy in some half-remembered philosophy Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius Whose ever bad intention has been purged You could've walked out any time you wanted but face it you didn't have the courage I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite or some kind of twisted dilettante Funny though people don't usually get so ugly 'til they think they know what they want Scratch your own head stupid Count up to three Roll over on your back Repeat after me Don't you know how to be dumb? Are you ready to take your place in the modern museum of mistakes? Don't you know how to be dumb? Like a building thrown up overnight in one of those reverse earthquakes
4. All Grown Up4:17

   Letra

   "I'm trouble" she said Spread out on the floor of her father's house Her promise was almost undone Under her tongue, dissolving her responsibilities To finally deny everyone with unflattering comparison Chorus: All grown up And you don't care anymore And you hate all the people that you used to adore And you despise all the rumors and lies of the life you led before Did I hear you right? You're feeling hounded and pushed around You want to just lay down and die If all of this life has been such a big disappointment to you Why don't you stop blaming some guy And go give the next one a try Chorus But look at yourself You'll see you're still so young You haven't earned the weariness That sounds so jaded on your tongue "I'm weak" she says And blesses herself and gets into bed Clutching the covers to her throat "So punish me now and let me go back to the sham of my life" "This night is the perfect antidote for all of the poison that You wrote" Chorus
5. Invasion Hit Parade5:33

   Letra

   Now that you set everybody free What are you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back to the sweet underground Where I can tell by the colour of my skin And I know my neighbour 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one Who always turns me in A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night Picking up every lost object in sight Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails The black market eats up all your failures Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets No pool, no pets, no cigarettes Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes Chorus: There's no name, no name for the place or pain we'll cause you again and again If you do not co-operate with the Invasion Hit Parade The liberation forces make movies of their own Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorised Incidentally the revolution will be televised With one head for business and another for good looks Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks Chorus They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light A handshaking double talking procession of the mighty Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem The former dictator was impeccably behaved They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved Chorus
6. Harpies Bizarre3:44

   Letra

   He selects the plainest face form a spiteful row of girls Elegant insulted women, a flaw of cultured pearls He drops a name or two, she fails to catch At last he's met his match Unspoiled and unaffected, he wants her so much She puts up half-hearted resistance, like she was taught to do She's heard some of those small town playboys but this is something new His promise seems dangerous, she'd like to believe He says "You'd better leave" "You've only got yourself to blame, shame, or deceive" The waiting lines are long They never get too far Everyone wearing that medal with pride Harpies Bizarre I looked on but hesitated I failed to interrupt You're so hard to tell the truth to So easy to corrupt I'll memorize your face Your tragic smile The hurt look in your eyes As you betrayed yourself to the part of him that dies The waiting lines are long They never get too far They're shining up their shoes to kick a falling star You think you should be somebody But you don't know who you are Everyone wearing that medal with pride Harpies Bizarre
7. After The Fall4:38

   Letra

   In an anonymous rendezvous Where the forbidden lovers repair They're burning down another damn candle They're melting the tables and chairs Beneath them applause from the balcony Whenever they accomplished making love Other times they thought they heard laughter Coming from the balcony above Chorus: She lies to his right and she carelessly recites All of her brand new appetites She seems brittle and small, it don't sound like her at all Since she came back to him after the fall She said "you never visit the countryside" "so i've made you a country to order" She put up a little tent in the bedroom Crickets played on a tape-recorder The ceiling was festooned with phosphorous stars She noticed his skin turning cold Burning all his clothes on the bonfire "relax" she whispered and tightened the blindfold Chorus You've changed but not for the better babe I'd tell you why but what's the use 'cos it's the same kind of pity A drunkard gives as his excuse You were sharp and ideal as a bobby pin Now your eyes are deserted and quiet We both look like those poor shattered mannequins Thrown through the window in the riot She lies in his arms and without any qualms Revels in shallow delights She seems brittle and small, it don't sound like her at all Since she came back to him after the fall
8. Georgie And Her Rival3:38

   Letra

   Georgie grew to hate her name It sounded like a tiny man And the one she had said "I can't see you, but I'll call you whenever I can" Sometimes the phone would ring, when she was half-asleep A voice would drag her down with its suggestions Though she often felt cheated, she never felt cheap Chorus Well heaven knows what fills the heart and makes you feel so alive It's impossible to tear apart Georgie and her rival It was half-past February And he hadn't called since New Year's Day Maybe he'd found another woman to say those words no chapel girl should say Her mother would phone and always keep talking She'd try to be polite, making faces But somewhere in the back of her mind, her rival was stalking Chorus Her rival would always wait 'til the eighth or ninth bell He'd be desperate anyway and drunk as well She always liked to hurt him to prove he was prepared To love her anyway that she wanted So she could tell which she preferred He sat up with his address book trying to think what mood he's in His finger traced past Georgie's name to someone who needed less persuading He didn't hear through her disguise he didn't leave her in a rush Just like the promise that he left on her machine That almost made her blush The radio plays a lover's symphony "The number you have dialed has been re-directed" Now she puts him on the speaker-phone Whenever she has company Chorus
9. So Like Candy4:36

   Letra

   Here lies the powder and perfume The pretty clothes are scattered 'round the room And it's so like Candy Here lies the lipstick and the face The coloured tablets keep it all in place And it's so like Candy So like Candy Chorus: What did I do to make her go Why must she be the one That I have to love So like Candy Here lies a picture of a girl Her arms are tight around that lucky guy And it's so like Candy And in her eyes a certain look I thought I'd seen the last of long ago And it's so like Candy So like Candy Chorus I remember the day that picture was taken We were so happy then But that's so like Candy She seemed so sweet to me I was mistaken Oh no not that again But that's so like Candy She just can't face the day So she turns and melts away Here lie the records that she scratched And on the sleeve I find a note attached And it's so like Candy "My Darling Dear it's such a waste" She couldn't say "goodbye", but "I admire your taste" And it's so like Candy So like Candy
10. Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No.2
11. Playboy To A Man3:17

    Letra

    You had your own way one too many times and now you're going to find out what it's like Just what it's like, now you're a mess You wanted something you could never possess You went your own way one too many nights You treated her like some small oversight What in the world makes her think that she can Turn you from a playboy into a man Chorus She's going to make you suffer tonight To turn you from a playboy into a man And when you're worthy of her then she might Turn you from a playboy into a man You thought you were the answer to her prayers the perfect gift that every girl prefers But that's the trouble 'cos every girl still thinks you're hers So there you are with your gold chains jangling Your lucky charms and jewelry dangling But when she saw you she turned and ran To turn you from a playboy into a man Chorus You couldn't see that the juvenile things you do Would drag you down and now that the joke's on you You're pretty cold you end as you start When your facade isn't falling apart So now you're standing in your underwear Well now you know just how it feels for her You're halfway there you know that she can turn you from a playboy into a man Chorus
12. Sweet Pear3:36

    Letra

    Sweet pear, sweet pear Those who say they love you would never dare I'll watch out for you I'll always be there In the hour of distress you need not fear In all the world there's only one true love And finding it's hard enough I bless whatever's in the sky above For bringing you to me But there's a void without your kiss I wake on the precipice above the abyss And though the touch of your lips these fears dismiss Make no mistake there is an ache I have to live with Was my grip too lose, my grip too strong That made you want to run away And now you're back where I pretend you belong I wonder every night and day How long I swear this is my prayer 'til we're burned and scattered in the atmosphere Or lost in the world across a crowded room I am your stupid lover, your wretched groom
13. Broken3:36

    Letra

    If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding, I'll call it my wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains If I am drifting, then I can fight it If I am sinking, no-one will know it If I am blinded I'll have my voices still to guide me If they yet fled away I'd bless the silence But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains
14. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No.4

Disco 2

1. Just Another Mystery Train
2. Sweet Pear (Demo)
3. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No.4 (En Vivo)
4. Mischievous Ghost – Con Mary Coughlan
5. St. Stephen's Day Murders – Con The Chieftains
6. The Other Side Of Summer (Versión Unplugged)
7. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Versión Unplugged)
8. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)4:05
9. All Grown Up (Demo)
10. Georgie And Her Rival (Demo)
11. Forgive Her Anything (Demo)
12. It Started To Come To Me (Demo)
13. I Still Miss Someone/The Last Town I Painted
14. Put Your Big Toe In The Milk Of Human Kindness

    Letra

    Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness Have you ever seen the like of this mankind? If a boy or girl is cute, we simply shoot to starry heights Any maybe, any might But always so capricious, in the face of wonder we're suspicious And though we came from frogs and fishes Our taste is far from fine Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness Have you ever seen the like of this mankind? You take the Himalayas, you'll take Manhattan's finest mountain top He wouldn't change his whiskey sour for any bitter crop But always so contrary, from Father Christmas to the Virgin Mary And though the moments of belief Fly by before you find if you'd just unhand your mind Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness But always so contrary, from Father Christmas to the Virgin Mary And though the moments of belief Fly by before you find if you'd just unhand your mind Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness
15. Invasion Hit Parade (Demo)
16. Just Another Mystery Train (Demo)
17. Broken (Demo)